.. _development: Development and Funding ======================= FORCE is primarily developed by David Frantz (:ref:`contact`). The software has emerged from my PhD research at `Trier University `_, supervised by `Prof. Dr. Joachim Hill `_, `online available `_. Many people have contributed to FORCE in one way or the other. Most prominently, these people are all the co-authors on the :ref:`refs` that are related to FORCE. Less prominantly, but not less important, these are many of my previous and current colleagues at the `ERSG `_ and `EOL `_ labs that have shaped the development of FORCE through our collaborative work and many on- or off-topic discussion. Starting with version 3.0, other people have actively developed code, which all are listed as contributors on `GitHub `_. The development has been supported by several research projects: * Southern African Science Service Centre for Climate Change and Adaptive Land Management Project (SASSCAL), funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research under grant number FKZ-01LG1201C * Sentinel4GRIPS, funded by the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure under grant number FKZ-50EW1605 * Near-Real Time Derivation of Land Surface Phenology using Sentinel Data: the FORCE-NRT approach, funded by the Geo.X Research Network for Geosciences in Berlin and Potsdam under grant number SO_087_GeoX * Understanding the Role of Material Stock Patterns for the Transformation to a Sustainable Society (MAT_STOCKS), funded by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant number 741950 * FONDA – Foundations of Workflows for Large-Scale Scientific Data Analysis, funded by DFG under grant number CRC-1404